Puerto Morelos Spends 200M Pesos on Bureaucracy

Puerto Morelos, Mexico — Despite not paying a single peso toward public debt, the administration of Blanca Merari Tziu Muñoz is investing 200 million pesos in salaries, wages, stipends, honoraria assimilable to salaries, benefits, social security costs, labor obligations, and other benefits derived from an employment relationship for its bureaucratic staff.

This is money that the residents of Puerto Morelos must pay to maintain the government apparatus, according to the expenditure budget for Puerto Morelos covering the period from January 1 to June 30, 2025—that is, six months.

The administration of Blanca Merari Tziu Muñoz has allocated the amount of 132 million 162 thousand 783 pesos and 23 centavos for personal services, which groups together the remuneration of personnel in the service of public entities.

For materials and supplies, it is spending 21 million 622 thousand 245 pesos and 91 centavos; for transfers, allocations, and subsidies, 9 million 690 thousand 235 pesos and 25 centavos; and for public investment, financial investments, participations and contributions, and public debt, zero pesos.

The budget is distributed as follows:

• Personal Services: $132,162,783.23 M.N.
• Materials and Supplies: $21,622,245.91 M.N.
• General Services: $74,789,853.50 M.N.
• Transfers, Allocations, Subsidies: $9,690,235.25 M.N.
• Movable Property, Real Estate, and Intangibles: $6,365,980.05 M.N.
• Public Investment: $0
• Financial Investments and Other Provisions: $0
• Participations and Contributions: $0
• Public Debt: $0
• Total: $244,651,097.94 M.N.

This means that more than two hundred million pesos is what it costs the residents of Puerto Morelos to maintain the entire government apparatus, according to this level of disaggregation of the Classifier by Object of State and Municipal Expenditure.

The definition of the expenditure chapters is as follows:

• 1000 PERSONAL SERVICES. Groups the remuneration of personnel in the service of public entities, such as: salaries, wages, stipends, honoraria assimilable to salaries, benefits and social security costs, labor obligations, and other benefits derived from an employment relationship; which may be permanent or temporary.
• 2000 MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES. Groups the allocations destined for the acquisition of all kinds of inputs and supplies required for the provision of public goods and/or services and for the performance of administrative activities.
• 3000 GENERAL SERVICES. Allocations destined to cover the cost of all types of services contracted with individuals or institutions of the public sector itself; as well as the official services required for the performance of activities linked to the public function.
• 4000 TRANSFERS, ALLOCATIONS, SUBSIDIES AND OTHER AIDS. Allocations destined directly or indirectly to the public, private, and external sectors, parastatal organizations and companies, and support as part of their economic and social policy, according to the development strategies and priorities for the sustenance and performance of their activities.
• 5000 MOVABLE PROPERTY, REAL ESTATE AND INTANGIBLES. Groups the allocations destined for the acquisition of all kinds of movable and immovable property required in the performance of the activities of public entities. Includes payments for adjudication, expropriation, and compensation of movable and immovable property in favor of the Government.
• 6000 PUBLIC INVESTMENT. Allocations destined for works by contract and productive projects and development actions. Includes expenses on pre-investment studies and project preparation.
• 7000 FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS AND OTHER PROVISIONS. Expenditures made by the public administration in the acquisition of stocks, bonds, and other securities; as well as in loans granted to various economic agents. Includes capital contributions to public entities; as well as contingent and unforeseen expenditures for the fulfillment of Government obligations.
• 8000 PARTICIPATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS. Groups the amount of federal and state resources to cover the participations in federal revenues to Municipalities from federal collection, as well as the allocations destined to the Municipalities according to the fiscal coordination agreements entered into by the Federal Government with the State. Includes the allocations to cover the federal contributions from the General Branch 33 Federal Contributions for Federal Entities and Municipalities in favor of the Municipalities.
• 9000 PUBLIC DEBT. Allocations destined to cover obligations for internal and external public debt derived from the contracting of loans; includes the amortization, interest, expenses, and commissions of the public debt, as well as the expenditures related to the issuance and/or contracting of debt. It also includes the debts from previous fiscal years (ADEFAS).